Thanx for the update. So they are still specifically targeting this team. I thought it had been generalised to the whole NBA but we are back where we started.
Just like when the NBA came in to say the Rockets were wrong to stop a CNN reporter from asking a question. I bet Silver went to China and told them to spare the NBA and threw the Rockets under the bus.
Many American corporations are operating in China. They have no political affiliation. It is about money, only money. They don't care about human rights violations, religious persecution, concentration camps, etc. Greed has no soul. The NBA has no soul. They are hypocrites. The are social justice warriors for causes based on false media narratives, but when it comes to "real" social justice, they are no where to be found. May God be with the Hong Kong protesters. They are crying out for freedom.
China Works To 'Tamp Down' Public Anger Against NBA The government of China "abruptly moved on Thursday to tamp down public anger at the NBA," according to reporting from the New York Times. There were concerns beginning to surface "that the rhetoric was damaging China's interests and image around the world." Editors at state news outlets have told reporters to avoid emphasizing the NBA issue. “I think this issue will gradually de-escalate — Global Times will not push to keep it hot,” Hu Xijin, the newspaper’s top editor, wrote in an electronic response to a request for comment. “I also hope the American side won’t make any moves to escalate it.” The issue began with a Tweet from Daryl Morey about Hong Kong. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/10/...s-against-the-nba.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share BEIJING — After three days of fanning nationalistic outrage, the Chinese government abruptly moved on Thursday to tamp down public anger at the N.B.A. as concerns spread in Beijing that the rhetoric was damaging China’s interests and image around the world. Now, the Chinese government appears to be reassessing its campaign against the N.B.A. and dialing down the clamor. The government is already in a bruising trade war with the United States, and a backlash against China could hurt its image in the sporting world ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics near Beijing. The dispute with the N.B.A. was also quickly politicizing an audience of sports fans who would not normally focus on issues like the protests in Hong Kong. Editors at state news outlets have told reporters to avoid emphasizing the N.B.A. issue for fear that it might become overheated, according to interviews with three journalists on Thursday. The controversy soon fell off the government-guided list of top 10 trending topics on Weibo, the country’s Twitter-like microblogging service. The authorities did not cancel Thursday’s preseason N.B.A. game in Shanghai. And even the highly nationalistic Global Times tabloid stopped pushing populist indignation over the tweet. “I think this issue will gradually de-escalate — Global Times will not push to keep it hot,” Hu Xijin, the newspaper’s top editor, wrote in an electronic response to a request for comment. “I also hope the American side won’t make any moves to escalate it.” China’s foreign ministry spokesman refused to say anything further about the dispute at Thursday’s news briefing. Beijing officials worry that a highly politicized struggle over the Hong Kong protests might hurt the two days of high-level trade talks starting on Thursday in Washington. Vice Premier Liu He is leading the Chinese negotiating team in Washington, and two people familiar with the talks said that the Chinese side was ready to conclude a partial deal with the Trump administration. The protests may cause high-profile athletes and their fans around the world to pay attention to the Hong Kong protests for the first time, and their sympathies might lie with the protesters instead of Beijing, one of the two people said. Both of them insisted on anonymity because of the sensitivity of the trade and nationalism issues involved. Tying sports very closely to Beijing’s handling of the Hong Kong protests may increase the risk of an international boycott of the Winter Olympics to be held in China in 2022, at a town just outside of Beijing. China has been wary for many months of a possible boycott. Chinese officials have been quick to point out in recent months that China did send its athletic teams to the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984 despite a Soviet-organized boycott that year in retaliation for the American-led boycott of the Moscow Games four years earlier. China itself did not send a team to the Moscow Olympics, however, but supported the American boycott in 1980. The campaign against the N.B.A. also put in an awkward position the many retailers that have large stocks of merchandise carrying various brands of the N.B.A. Businesses are reluctant to write off the value of this inventory. The basketball issue was also drawing unwelcome attention to Alibaba, a Chinese electronic commerce giant that is trying to expand in the United States to compete with Amazon and that has sought to avoid becoming mired in political disputes between China and the United States. Joseph Tsai, a co-founder of Alibaba, also owns the Brooklyn Nets and jumped into the controversy over the tweet. He issued a strongly worded statement on Facebook calling for respect and understanding for China’s desire to oppose any form of separatism after a long history of intervention by foreign powers.
I felt sad to say good bye to some of our China Rockets fans who amazingly able to remember their CF password since 7-8 years ago, but after came here to make a few posts in the last few days, now they are going to leave us for good.
So China's government gets butt hurt by a deleted Twitter post from a business partner's employee and responds with bans and media blitz because they control the media. Now they worry that their bullying tactics make them look like, a bully, lol and that it could hurt their future economic well-being so they're backing off the rhetoric. At least they get their S together pretty fast. It's easier when there's no dissent within the government or media. And I'm not down playing or mocking the butt hurt - I'm well aware of the history of humiliations and how that shapes modern national identity.
Yeah, China is just completely backwards. The US has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to censorship and supporting repressive regimes. And we will do anything it takes to protect our democracy and freedom from those who wish to attack it.
Chinese government did not say anything until yesterday. It was all fans, companies and Yao's CBA. I predict the permanent official ban will come after NBA starts and HK stuff show up on Chinese national TVs.
China with 1.4B people vs. US Territory with 160,000 people. That's like swatting a 3 year old's shot.
